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Financial Planning for Women

Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers… ~ Geraldine Laybourne The general perception is that only men ideally need financial planning.  Most educated and working women feel that managing money is a man’s job. Why...

Get started… Follow what you believe in

This is the final article of this series. We have been tracing our journey from CAN’Tto CAN over the past few weeks. Last week, we got introduced to people who make the impossible,‘possible’ and this...

HDFC Bank enters in pact with IOC for banking services in rural areas

Private Sector banking major, HDFC Bank,  has entered into a pact with Indian Oil Corp to provide banking facilities in semi-urban and rural areas through the latter’s rural petrol pump outlets ‘Kisan Seva Kendras‘. “Beginning...

You can make a difference, will you?

The first article in the inspiration series introduced you to the four letter word we can live without and the second article discussed shifting language and behavior to be reflective of a ‘can do’ attitude....

Financial planning – Myths & Reality

‘Financial Planning’ is the new buzzword in the current financial services landscape in India. We tend to hear a lot about financial planning these days. The buzzword is used in all sorts of context creating...

KR Kamath appointed chairman of IBA

With effect from 1st October 2012, Shri K.R. Kamath has been appointed as chairman of  The Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) . Currently Kamath is the chairman and managing director of Punjab National Bank. Mr Kamat...

Adrian Dillon and Renu Karnad joins WNS board

WNS (Holdings) Limited, a leading provider of global business process outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced the appointment of Mr. Adrian Dillon and Mrs. Renu Karnad to the Board of Directors of WNS (Holdings) Limited with...

CAN the CAN’T

This article continues from Part One… Last week, we discussed the hare and tortoise race from Aesop’s fable. The tortoise overtook the hare because it told itself ‘I CAN’. This week we discuss ‘CAN’ the...

The Less You Know

The more you learn, the less you know. What? How can this be? Some sort of weird paradox? No — the more you learn, the vastness of what you do not know becomes more apparent,...

A four letter word we can live without… CAN’T

Once upon a time a hare and tortoise decided to race each other. Remember the story?  The hare as we know is a fast animal and it was a no brainer that the hare would win...

Happiness is Uncovering What You Already Have

When I set out to convert my unhappiness with my life into happiness, about 7 years ago, I had some ideas about how to do it. I was going to get out of debt and...

Retirement Blues : S. Shankar Menon

Opthals, doctors, lawyers,tinkers, tailors can carry on until they can’t cure their own cataracts, torts and writs lose their bites and pots and pans become ifs and ands. For the likes of me, all bureau-cats are...